The American Chestnut
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Foundation
Forest Service Road 708, Newport, Virginia 24128
COOPERATING GROWER AGREEMENT
FORM
The Cooperator Agrees To:
1. Work with the ACCF
in conducting the research outlined below.
2. Conduct at the
Cooperator location(s) as appropriate, research directed toward the
growing and testing the field performance of all-American chestnuts
from the ACCF breeding program. Activities include:
a.
Plant and grow American chestnut seedlings, scionwood and seednuts sent
out by the ACCF to the Cooperator. The number of trees sent each
year will be the Cooperator's decision.
b.
Report each fall to the ACCF on the percent survival and progress
of all surviving American chestnuts which were grown from scionwood,
seedlings and/or seednuts in the ACCF breeding program.
Location(s) of the planting(s), with a rough map, should be
included. The organization or individual affiliated with an
organization agrees that all other reports or copies of reports
concerning these American chestnuts will be sent with the ACCF report.
c.
Participate with the ACCF director(s) or officer(s) in evaluating the
field blight resistance and forest tree form of all-American chestnuts
sent to the Cooperator by the ACCF, to be done when the trees are
of sufficient size (usually > 1 inch diameter at breast height
(dbh)).
d.
Include ACCF representative(s) (directors or officers) as coauthor(s)
in the preparation of manuscripts and publication of papers resulting
from the research described above.
I agree
to the above as a Cooperator of the ACCF. Further, I pledge that
the chestnut grove which I plan to establish will be 100% all-American
and that genetic materials, i.e., germplasm, nuts, trees or
scions from my ACCF chestnuts will not be used in hybrid or other
breeding programs without specific permission from ACCF directors.
Signature
____________________________
Date ____________________
Name (please
print)__________________________________________________
Address
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________zip-code_________________
Telephone
____________________ E-mail ______________________________
My annual donation ($20) to
ACCF research is enclosed. I wish to plant American chestnut
seedlings by direct-seeding and will follow ACCF directions for their
protection. Please send me a share of the open-pollinated nuts to
be mailed October 2008; I am digging holes and making cages to
plant____(how many). Maximum request per year is 10.
Dedicated to
the restoration of American chestnuts